It was a house-swarming party. Residents of southeastern Mexico were left in shock after a biblical proportion of locusts swallowed the region’s skies, leading many — including local media — to evoke ...

Kenya is facing its worst locust invasion in seven decades. The locusts have found perfect conditions over the past two years as they have moved from the Middle East onto the African continent, where ...

KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious ...

(Merida, Mexico) - Thousand of crops in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatan have been destroyed by a severe locust plague, that has invaded the region since early this year. In Merida, officials ...

Swarms of Locusts Flood the Skies of Yucatan's Capital Swarms of locusts were spotted in the skies over Yucatan’s capital, Merida, on December 6. This footage, posted to Facebook by Gonzalez Jose, ...

Doctor Albert L. Child of the U.S. Signal Corps collected telegraphs from several states to figure out the features of the ...

Locust swarms are particularly hard to defend against because they occur unexpectedly, and scientists have not had much luck predicting when or where they will happen. According to new evidence ...

Desert locusts, a notorious Biblical pest, form some of the largest insect groups in nature and are estimated to threaten the livelihood of one in ten people due to their impact on food security.

Locusts have been agricultural pests for almost as long as humans have grown plants for food. They cause millions of dollars in crop damage every year. They can even create food shortages and destroy ...

The precise moment at which a group of independently milling locusts loses its chaotic aspect and transforms into a highly aligned swarm has been pinpointed by researchers. The finding could provide a ...